33rd Annual Decisions in Trauma Conference - Hybrid

Join us for this one day conference to enhance the multidisciplinary team approach for emergency and trauma patients.

This conference is designed for health care professionals who care for the adult and pediatric trauma populations at all stages of care, from emergency response to rehabilitation.

• CoxHealth Education Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Midwest Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Midwest MSD Provider Approval #MO626-3. 7.0 Contact hours
• AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ pending approval
• This program will be submitted to the APTA Arkansas and National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, credit is pending.
• This program will be submitted to the Missouri Board for Respiratory Care and credit is pending.
• Trauma, RT, and EMS contact hours pending approval.

0730-0755: Registration, Breakfast, Vendors

0755-0800: Welcome

0800-0900: Elderly Pelvis Fractures, Daniel Bravin, MD, FAAOS, FACS

Objectives:

• Understand basic pelvic ring anatomy and fracture classification
• Recognize associated injuries
• Develop strategies for initial pelvic ring management
• Low vs High energy pelvis injuries – there is a difference!
• Recognize importance in pelvis fractures in elderly patients

0900-1000: St. Louis Children's/Andrew Yeh, MD

1000-1015: Break/Vendors

1015-1200: Trauma Panel: Myth Busters, Norrie Bradley, RN, BSN, Jami Blackwell, RN, BSN, MBA, BS, TCRN, CEN, CBRN, Matthew Brandt, MD, David Volgas, MD, Lindsay Turner, RN, & Joshua McElderry, MD

Objectives:

• Identify common misconceptions in trauma care
• Discuss changes in trauma practice from the past

1200-1300: Lunch/Vendors

1300-1400: Trauma Around the Globe, Jami Blackwell, RN, BSN, MBA, BS, TCRN, CEN, CBRN

Objectives:

1. Discuss trauma care in countries outside the US
2. Identify barriers to trauma systems in other countries

1400-1415: Break/Vendors

1415-1515: TBI: Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Factors in the Acute Medical Setting, Bralin Barnes, PsyD/ Doctor of Counseling Psychology

Objectives:

1. Utilize the Rancho Scale to describe a patient’s level of functioning post TBI
2. Identify potential psychological factors impacting physical health post TBI and recognize when psychological services may be useful

1515-1615: Traumatic Arrest, Russell Scanlan, BS, NRP

1615-1630: Closing and Evaluation

Topics and speakers are subject to change

Owen Aldridge, AS, NRP

• Green County Field Supervisor

Jami Blackwell RN, BSN, MBA, BS, TCRN, CEN, CBRN

• Trauma Program Director

Norrie Bradley, RN, BSN

• Trauma Outreach and Education Coordinator, Trauma Services

Casey Ewing, RRT

• Adult Critical Care Respiratory Supervisor

Bridget Gladman RN, BSN, RNC-MNN

• Primary Nurse Planner/Conference Coordinator

Jonathan Jacobs, RRT, ACCS, BSRT

• Respiratory Care Department Educator

Triesa Massey MHA

• Medical Staff Education Coordinator 

Joshua McElderry, MD

• Trauma Surgeon

Russell Scanlan, BS, NRP

• EMS Educator-PI Facilitator, Pre-Hospital Services

Lindsay Turner, RN

• Outreach and Education Coordinator, Trauma Services

Kristi Vandeloecht PTA, GC CDR, MS

• Clinical Therapist Educator, Rehab Services 

David Volgas, MD

• Medical Director, Orthopaedic Trauma

Cancellations received by the date indicated on the program webpage will be entitled to a full refund, less Eventbrite’s fees. Eventbrite registration fees are nonrefundable and vary with each course.

After the date indicated on the program webpage as the final day for full refunds, a $25.00 processing fee will be withheld.

No refunds will be made for cancellations received the day of the activity.

If you are a no-show the day of the event and chose payroll deduct, you will still be charged the registration fee.

Refunds will be credited back to the same credit card in which the payment was received. If the payment was made in cash or check, the refund will be provided within 4-6 weeks in the form of a check and mailed to the address obtained at the time of registration.

In the event Education Center cancels or reschedules a course, participants are entitled to a full refund or the participant may transfer registration to the next scheduled activity.

CoxHealth is not responsible for travel, hotel, booking fees, or other cancellation fees for registrants when a program is cancelled.

All refunds must be received in writing via email or by calling Bridget Gladman at 417-269-4150 or Bridget.Gladman@coxhealth.com